“No to laboratory pharmacies” –

«We greet with gratitude and satisfaction the sensible resolution of the Meloni Authorities to exclude the rule referring to the ‘Pressing provisions to advertise the availability of providers in pharmacies from the anti-waiting listing decree of seven June. The rule, which opens up the likelihood for pharmacies to hold out analytical laboratory providers now not restricted to the self-monitoring check permitted to date, might rework pharmacies not solely into evaluation laboratories however into healthcare service suppliers, although the pharmacist doesn’t have the cognitive and instrumental instruments to rework the straightforward discovering deriving from the blood or genetic sampling right into a report accompanied by items of measurement, reference intervals and resolution limits”. Thus the Uap, the Nationwide Union of clinics, polyclinics, establishments and personal hospitals, in a observe as soon as once more firmly reiterates the boundaries concerning the growth of the ‘pharmacy of providers’. The UAP proclaims “an vital demonstration” in mid-September. «The weather, that are indispensable for scientific analysis, are the unique duty, along with the assure and management of analytical high quality, of laboratory medication professionals and due to this fact of private and non-private laboratories and multi-specialist centres, which have over 95,000 constructions on the nationwide territory, as with all different diagnostic exams”, reiterates Uap, led by Mariastella Giorlandino.

«We are going to firmly oppose within the parliamentary seat any regulatory challenge doubtlessly able to giving rise to absurd confusion for sufferers and clinicians concerning the outcomes of scientific analyzes which may solely be carried out by the competent scientific evaluation and diagnostic laboratories. Pharmacies – Uap factors out – don’t possess the abilities to offer providers that evaluation laboratories and multi-specialist facilities have thus far carried out following having adopted the anticipated and licensed particular coaching programmes, following advanced regional authorization and accreditation procedures, following having revered the over 420 necessities crucial to start out the exercise to guard the well being of residents, adapting its premises to the perfect hygienic – well being in addition to technological and logistical requirements, with vital financial and human assets investments”. «We all the time belief within the excessive authority and safety of the Structure carried out masterfully and day by day with sensible care and neutral imaginative and prescient by the Presidency of the Republic for the safety of the legal guidelines – remembers Uap – We’re sure that the legal guidelines being examined by this Parliament is not going to be able to violating article 32 of our Structure, a excessive constitutional assure for the safety of private and non-private well being; on this perspective, we’re in favor of sustaining the present laws (Legislative Decree quantity 153 of 2009), in keeping with which the execution of laboratory exams in pharmacies stays restricted to ‘first occasion analytical providers falling throughout the scope of self-monitoring, i.e. the exams that may be managed straight by sufferers or by the pharmacist by way of capillary blood sampling and every thing else, for authorization functions for any analysis